I HATE APPLE

er, actually, resetting smc seems to have worked.

ok no

I feel like resetting smc is way over-recommended

Check activity monitor

Yeah, I was at 75% idle, CPU temp was 65-71c, and fans were nearly full blast. Right now 95% idle and it's quiet.

i put a DAC add-on card into a raspberry pi running kodi and plugged it into an amp— posting in this thread because when i listen to streaming services i use airplay to stream to the rpi from my phone, which is the only part of the setup that ever doesn’t work.

I had this issue, and then I followed these instructions, and it's been much better - almost no throttling, and the fans are much quieter. However, I think most of the benefit of opening up the mac was from cleaning out the fans. Not sure if all the thermal pads are helping.

dust clogged the fan in my 2015 imac so completely that it'd turn off after 30 seconds if you asked it to do anything other than idle. i had to take it apart and pull the fan - there was a complete brick of dust that prevented any air from getting to the cpu

pplains although I focused on the jargon there is nothing more to it than setting up a Mac with iTunes, plugging an optical cable into the headphone socket and turning on Screen Sharing in the prefs. Everything else is finessing. The iTunes Remote app is free on the phone and pairs up easily.
The only futzing I did was in service to my obsession with lossless files, even though I know full well my hearing has aged past the point of ever detecting file compression.

The other good thing is that you can troubleshoot it just by running the Mac headphone socket to aux in, and leaving a screen plugged in, which I did for a few weeks while making sure it all worked as expected. I doubt I would be able to tell the difference in sound quality in a blind test anyway.

i’m with pplains

from afar, it is pretty weird!! but in an endearing way. <3

well at least I’m using it to listen to Slowdive and Tierra Whack

i had this issue for a long time and then realised my 10yo son was leaving roblox running in his user account 🙄

i put a DAC add-on card into a raspberry pi running kodi and plugged it into an amp— posting in this thread because when i listen to streaming services i use airplay to stream to the rpi from my phone, which is the only part of the setup that ever doesn’t work.

the 13 pro camera kind of sucks, don’t know why. Too much algorithms or something

Yeah, it does this weird HDR cursed image looking stuff sometimes. I think it’s Night mode. I’ve been using ProCamera more often. I wish I could replace the lock screen icon with it.

I swear the photos I take on my se first edition look better

Changing my macOS password broke all my permissions and with Monterey none of the permission resetting tricks worked so I’ve had to do a clean install just so I could delete files without using a password.

eeeesh

Replaced my magic mouse with a logitech mouse that doesn’t constantly short out and tell me that the batteries are low. Will soon replace the magic keyboard that for some damn reason won’t let me control the volume because it’s not compatible with some horse shit. I think when this computer dies I am done with apple. Everything is over designed to the point of being useless.

I lost another set of air pods last night, I hate apple

Did I mention the 13 pro camera sucks

I said 'yes ok upgrade to osx monterey damnit', then left it to do its thing overnight. Came back, switched my computer on for work, saw a big 'To set up the installation, click Continue' dialog.

that old chestnut

I’m generally happy with the apple ecosystem, but here are my primary annoyances:

- Changing from controlling music on my phone to controlling music on the HomePod. Clunky and not responsive. Four taps if I do it through control center, five if I open the music app to do it.

- Reliability of running shortcuts. Some of them maybe work half the time.

- Removal of 3D Touch from the iPhone.

- Screen-time/parental controls are awful. Clunky and convoluted.

yeah i need more than 1 window per day where i can lock my kids out of their devices. like, school hours plus bedtime feels like a minimum.

Apple has recently opened up the API for screen time to allow 3rd party developers to build better solutions. I’ve tried one called Grace, which is promising, but it ain’t there yet because there are still restrictions on what Apple will allow developers to do. I’ve also considered MDM solutions, but that always seems like more trouble than it is worth.

I wish you could download sound files for the keyboard tapping sounds. Want mine to sound like an Adler Tippa S

it's your lucky day:

https://www.pond5.com/sound-effects/item/50382148-typewriter-vintage-adler-tippa-s-typing-sequence-bell-ding-v

So when I “Shazam” a song new it no longer gives a Spotify link. Ffs

Hey Siri play cry by 10cc
I couldn’t find that in your Apple Music
[i google their names]
Hey Siri play cry by godley and creme
*nothing happens*
Hey Siri play cry by godley and creme
*10 second wait*
Here’s cry by godley and creme (“creme” pronounced wrong)

Alexa play cry by 10cc
*immediately plays cry by godley and creme*

Hey Siri what’s the dew point?
*Shows google results for “dew point”*

Alexa what’s the dew point?
the dew point is 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

“Call Brandon”
“Call mom?”
“No. Call Brandon”
“Call mom?”

Btw the hard edges on the phones suck. The rounded ones from the 6 to the 11 feel so smooth

https://i.imgur.com/T1iRzA9.png

gfy

iMessage split my contacts :(

Not sure what happened but messages used to go to both my mac and my iPhone based on phone number now they are two difference sources.

Fixed! Had to log on again on my phone.

Not quite. I can see my own messages on both devices but not from others

Messages on Mac always had sync issues with the phone for me. I also can’t risk missing a message on my phone so I just turned it off on the Mac

There is some weird-ass setting buried deep in the iOS Messages prefs about forwarding to a Mac - I had to redo that when I changed phones so the SMS went to my computer as well

It's not buried - it's in the top level of Messages' prefs on your phone. Turn on Text Message Forwarding to whatever devices you want it on.

Finally got around to doing that on my own Mac a couple of months ago and I should have done that a while ago.

that setting is firmly turned OFF on mine as i use my own apple id on my work machine….. you can imagine the sitcom-worthy moment in the middle of a presentation…

I got a text telling me someone had died during a talk. Someone I didn’t know but the audience didn’t know that. Weird vibe.

Option-click on the notifications icon (or the clock on Monterey) silences all notifications, which is handy for comedy colleague Slack moments

Upgrade time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExo67OLrdY

Even my bank is emailing me telling me to apply this latest security update, which is weird. I wonder if it’s important. On the other hand, it’s a _reboot_ ew

I had to install multiple times. Third time was the charm. And then it rebooted several times.